Mini Mills

[Rockytime]

I'm posting here because I did not now if the metal lathe department included metal mills. I suppose the department should be metal machines. But, my question is this. I have sold my Bridgeport and large lathe. I need something smaller to replace it. I have a Sherline mill but would like a little larger mill. I am looking at Micro Mark, Grizzly and Little Machine Shop. I am leaning to the Micro Mark mill because it has inch lead-screws rather than metric. All my machinery and measuring instruments are inch. Anyone have experience with these mills?

 

[hanau]

I have the fix colum little machine shop mill that I converted to cnc. It works for what I do. I would like to have more x and y movement. Think it is about x11.5 and y 5.5

 

[mredburn]

have you considered a Taig?

 

[Rockytime]

have you considered a Taig?

I have, but it is not a lot bigger than the Sherline mill that I have. I would like a little more capacity than the Taig. I also want an R8 Taper as I have a selection of them.